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J.H.C. Whitehead's second free-group algorithm determines whether or not two given elements of a free group lie in the same orbit of the automorphism group of the free group. The algorithm involves certain connected graphs, and Whitehead…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Warren Dicks

We prove that every connected locally finite regular graph has a double cover which is isomorphic to a Schreier graph.

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We study a modified notion of Ollivier's coarse Ricci curvature on graphs introduced by Lin, Lu, and Yau in [11]. We establish a rigidity theorem for complete graphs that shows a connected finite simple graph is complete if and only if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Vincent Bonini , Conor Carroll , Uyen Dinh , Sydney Dye , Joshua Frederick , Erin Pearse

We will explore the nature of when certain finite groups have an equal covering, and when finite groups do not. Not to be confused with the concept of a cover group, a covering of a group is a collection of proper subgroups whose…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Andrew Velasquez-Berroteran

This paper develops a harmonic Galois theory for finite graphs, thereby classifying harmonic branched $G$-covers of a fixed base $X$ in terms of homomorphisms from a suitable fundamental group of $X$ together with $G$-inertia structures on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-10 Scott Corry

Robertson and Seymour proved that for every finite tree $H$, there exists $k$ such that every finite graph $G$ with no $H$ minor has path-width at most $k$; and conversely, for every integer $k$, there is a finite tree $H$ such that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

In this article we study the K- and L-theory of groups acting on trees. We consider the problem in the context of the fibered isomorphism conjecture of Farrell and Jones. We show that in the class of residually finite groups it is enough to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-25 S. K. Roushon

We prove that a connected, locally finite, quasi-transitive graph which is quasi-isometric to a planar graph is necessarily accessible. This leads to a complete classification of the finitely generated groups which are quasi-isometric to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Joseph Paul MacManus

A graph $\G$ with a group $H$ of automorphisms acting semiregularly on the vertices with two orbits is called a {\em bi-Cayley graph} over $H$. When $H$ is a normal subgroup of $\Aut(\G)$, we say that $\G$ is {\em normal} with respect to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Jin-Xin Zhou

We propose a homology theory for locally compact spaces with ends in which the ends play a special role. The approach is motivated by results for graphs with ends, where it has been highly successful. But it was unclear how the original…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Reinhard Diestel , Philipp Sprüssel

We prove that an arbitrary compact metrizable group can be realized as the automorphism group of a graphing; this is a continuous analogue to Frucht's theorem recovering arbitrary finite groups are automorphism groups of finite graphs. The…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Alexandru Chirvasitu

We classify all closed, aspherical Riemannian manifolds M whose universal cover has indiscrete isometry group. One sample application is the theorem that any such M with word-hyperbolic fundamental group must be isometric to a negatively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benson Farb , Shmuel Weinberger

A cornerstone of extremal graph theory due to Erd\H{o}s and Stone states that the edge density which guarantees a fixed graph $F$ as subgraph also asymptotically guarantees a blow-up of $F$ as subgraph. It is natural to ask whether this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Richard Lang , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

A nontrivial connected graph is matching covered if each edge belongs to some perfect matching. For most problems pertaining to perfect matchings, one may restrict attention to matching covered graphs; thus, there is extensive literature on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Rohinee Joshi , Santhosh Raghul , Nishad Kothari

It is known that the canonical double cover of any connected nonbipartite graph have an automorphism group of the form $H \rtimes \mathbb{Z}_2$, where $H$ is the set of automorphism which preserve bipartite parts. We construct connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Bartłomiej Bychawski

A graph $G$ covers a graph $H$ if there exists a locally bijective homomorphism from $G$ to $H$. We deal with regular covers in which this locally bijective homomorphism is prescribed by an action of a subgroup of ${\rm Aut}(G)$. Regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Jiří Fiala , Pavel Klavík , Jan Kratochvíl , Roman Nedela

We prove that the theory of the Farey graph is pseudofinite by constructing a sequence of finite structures that satisfy increasingly large subsets of its first-order axiomatization. This graph is an important object in the study of curve…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Connor Martinez Lockhart

For all Artin groups, we characterise the girth (i.e. the length of a shortest cycle) of the defining graph algebraically, showing that it is an isomorphism invariant. Using this result, we prove that the Artin groups based on a cycle graph…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Giovanni Sartori

We prove a coarse version of Halin's Grid Theorem: Every one-ended, locally finite graph that contains the disjoint union of infinitely many rays as an asymptotic minor also contains the half-grid as an asymptotic minor. More generally, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Sandra Albrechtsen , Matthias Hamann